At 01:50 AM 2/4/01 -0600, Steve wrote:
There are so many screensavers available now that one can be found to match
any personality,
Why not identify a couple of existing screensavers that could be
"compatible" with Prime95 and then approach the author(s). ask
them to make a verion that
On 3 Feb 2001, at 17:03, Jeff Woods wrote:
With increasing exponent size (and therefore run time), I'd like to
see PrimeNet evolve to track intermediate residues also to be able
to coordinate parallel LL testing double-checking, so that runs
which are going wrong can be stopped for
On 4 Feb 2001, at 1:50, Steve wrote:
"Alexander Kruppa" wrote:
The screen-saver idea is important for another reason.
I asked several coworkers and secretaries to let Prime95 (NTprime,
actually) run on their PCs and they agreed, but they were less than
happy when I asked them to change
Steve wrote:
"...slowed down to a halt" is no exaggeration. I've seen screensavers slow
it down to more than 7 seconds per iteration at 800+ MHz. I have it running
on some PCs where the user has the screensaver set to start after 5 minutes
then sets the power management so the monitor turns
"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
On 4 Feb 2001, at 0:27, Alexander Kruppa wrote:
Well, you could bump NTprime's priority to 4; that would let NTprime
steal CPU cycles off the screensaver, without being too obvious to
the user :) Don't go any higher, as you would risk seriously
impacting the
Nothing built by human hands is perfect, so, sure, the program could
be improved! Personally I'd like to see an optimization for Athlon;
at the expense of having to load different versions for different
processor types, I'd like to see seperate "streamlined" versions of
the code
Idea for a screensaver for Prime95, let the user specify a
directory of picture files and Prime would pick one to display
every few minutes. Decoding a JPG or GIF would suck up some
cycles but between picture updates Prime would get them all.
Cheers... Russ
On 3 Feb 2001, at 7:18, mohk wrote:
Win32Prime would be the correct name to use there since the name
reflects what platform it runs on.
I guess Prime95 comes from the "good old days" when Win95 was new and
unqualified program names were expected to be 16-bit Win 3.x
applications. BTW there
At 09:23 AM 2/3/2001 -, "Brian J. Beesley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
George has announced the development of new FFT code optimised for
Pentium 4. The FFT code is the true heart of the program: it's really
hard for me to put into words just how much we all owe to George for
his unstinting
At 14:57 02/03/2001 -0600, Ken Kriesel wrote:
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In the QA effort, we've seen a few instances already of errors caught
midway by doing a manual/email version of this. Brian Beesley had an error
detected this way in his run of a double-check of a 10-megadigit exponent.
This exponent takes
At 02:57 PM 2/3/01 -0600, you wrote:
With increasing exponent size (and therefore run time), I'd like to
see PrimeNet evolve to track intermediate residues also to be able
to coordinate parallel LL testing double-checking, so that runs
which are going wrong can be stopped for investigation
At 04:48 PM 2/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
After hanging around the Anandtech DC forum for awhile, I'm convinced that
this completion time "problem" might be GIMPS biggest hurdle to getting
more participation. Very few "loonies" like us are willing to wait 14
months for the calculation of one
At 17:04 02/03/2001 -0500, Jeff Woods wrote:
At 04:48 PM 2/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
After hanging around the Anandtech DC forum for awhile, I'm convinced that
this completion time "problem" might be GIMPS biggest hurdle to getting
more participation. Very few "loonies" like us are willing to
"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
Some people have indicated they'd like a version of the program with
a pretty screen-saver interface. Fair enough, provided we can keep
the "classic" version without the extra overhead.
The screen-saver idea is important for another reason.
I asked several
Jeff Woods wrote:
At 04:48 PM 2/3/01 -0500, you wrote:
After hanging around the Anandtech DC forum for awhile, I'm convinced
that this completion time "problem" might be GIMPS biggest hurdle to
getting more participation. Very few "loonies" like us are willing
to wait 14 months for
Alexander Kruppa wrote:
"Brian J. Beesley" wrote:
Some people have indicated they'd like a version of the program with
a pretty screen-saver interface. Fair enough, provided we can keep
the "classic" version without the extra overhead.
The screen-saver idea is important for another
Ken Kriesel wrote:
At 09:23 AM 2/3/2001 -, "Brian J. Beesley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
George has announced the development of new FFT code optimised for
Pentium 4. The FFT code is the true heart of the program: it's really
hard for me to put into words just how much we all owe to
Jeff Woods wrote:
Then why is SETI@home so popular, when it shows little in the way of daily
statistics, either?
Because Space/Aliens/E.T./Sci-Fi/etc is popular and SETI lets
you participate, not just watch NASA/movies/others...
That busy colorful SETI screensaver is also pretty neat to
"Alexander Kruppa" wrote:
The screen-saver idea is important for another reason.
I asked several coworkers and secretaries to let Prime95 (NTprime,
actually) run on their PCs and they agreed, but they were less than
happy when I asked them to change the pretty 3-d screen savers for
something
hi there,
the first idea is more an ideological one. the name is obsolet. :)
i vote for winprime or prim4win.
the next idea is to give the prime crunchers the choice of doin' what they
want to do.
for myself, i like to do double test. i could clean up the double tests to
prove
M(6972593)
Hi there mohk.
I've soon been with the project for 2.5 years and there has always been a
choice to set if you want primenet to choose a job for you or if you want to
do LL, doublechecking or factoring. v19? added the option of 10 million digit
LL:s too.
You can find the settings under
Hi, again :)
At 06:03 PM 02.02.01, you wrote:
Hi there mohk.
I've soon been with the project for 2.5 years and there has always been a
choice to set if you want primenet to choose a job for you or if you want to
do LL, doublechecking or factoring. v19? added the option of 10 million digit
LL:s
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